{"id":194220,"date":"2025-10-06T23:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T23:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194220\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T23:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T23:01:07","slug":"predators-set-2025-26-opening-night-roster-nashville-begins-season-against-columbus-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194220\/","title":{"rendered":"Predators Set 2025-26 Opening Night Roster; Nashville Begins Season Against Columbus on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, Tenn. (Oct. 6, 2025) &#8211; Nashville Predators General Manager Barry Trotz announced following Saturday\u2019s preseason game vs. Carolina that the team has placed forward Matthew Wood (lower body) and defenseman Nicolas Hague (upper body) on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Nashville\u2019s active roster ahead of its 2025-26 regular season opener on Thursday vs. Columbus consists of 22 players \u2013 13 forwards, seven defensemen and two goaltenders. <a href=\"https:\/\/media.d3.nhle.com\/image\/private\/t_document\/prd\/hwfupfidpw1rhaldxdqf.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> for the complete roster, also listed below.<\/p>\n<p>Forwards (13): Michael Bunting, Filip Forsberg, Erik Haula, Tyson Jost, Joakim Kemell, Jonathan Marchessault, Brady Martin, Michael McCarron, Ryan O\u2019Reilly, Cole Smith, Steven Stamkos, Fedor Svechkov, Ozzy Wiesblatt<\/p>\n<p>Defensemen (7): Justin Barron, Nick Blankenburg, Roman Josi, Nick Perbix, Brady Skjei, Spencer Stastney, Adam Wilsby<\/p>\n<p>Goaltenders (2): Justus Annunen, Juuse Saros<\/p>\n<p>Injured Reserve (2): Nicolas Hague, Matthew Wood<\/p>\n<p>Non-Roster (1): Luke Evangelista (awaiting immigration)<\/p>\n<p>The Predators open their 2025-26 season presented by Regions Bank on Thursday against the Blue Jackets at Bridgestone Arena. Puck drop is set for 7 p.m. CT; the game will be broadcast on FanDuel Sports Network South and ESPN 102.5 The Game.<\/p>\n<p>Single-game tickets for the Predators\u2019 opening weekend against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Oct. 9 and Utah Mammoth on Oct. 11 \u2013 and all other 2025-26 home games at Bridgestone Arena \u2013 are now available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/predators\/news\/x-apple-ql-id2:\/\/forge.d3.nhle.com\/word\/ticketmaster.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ticketmaster.com<\/a>. Become Smashville Loyal with full, half or quarter season tickets to maximize your benefits and secure the best seats, or take advantage of the Preds 5-Game Plans that allow you to choose your five games and get two free! For more information about season ticket plans, group tickets or premium suite rentals for the 2025-26 season, call 615-770-7800, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/predators\/tickets\/smashville-loyal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NashvillePredators.com<\/a> or text PREDS to 833-453-2488 to begin receiving ticket offers directly to your phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nashville, Tenn. (Oct. 6, 2025) &#8211; Nashville Predators General Manager Barry Trotz announced following Saturday\u2019s preseason game vs.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-194220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}